The patch of sea is a 500,000 square miles and borders Miami, Puerto Rico and Bermuda. One of its most famous disappearances is the USS Cyclops in 1918 which went missing without even sending a Mayday signal. But one British scientist claims to know what sparked the mysterious disappearances.
University of Southampton researcher Dr Simon Boxall believes the mystery can be explained by “rogue waves”.
Rogue waves are large and unexpected waves which can be extremely dangerous to large ships.
Dr Boxall told Channel 5 documentary – The Bermuda Triangle Enigma – how the powerful waves are formed.
He said: “There are storms to the south and north, which come together.
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“And if there are additional ones from Florida, it can be a potentially deadly formation of rogue waves.
“They are steep, they are high – we’ve measured waves in excess of 30 metres.”
Rogues waves have been recorded before such as a “100-foot tsunami triggered by an earthquake and landslide in Alaska’s Lituya Bay in 1958,” according to Huffington Post.
The US Coast Guard also refuses to acknowledge the Bermuda Triangle and instead refers to it as mythical geographic area.
The Coast Guard does not recognise the existence of the so-called Bermuda Triangle as a geographic area of specific hazard to ships or planes, according to the USCG website.
It says: “In a review of many aircraft and vessel losses in the area over the years, there has been nothing discovered that would indicate that casualties were the result of anything other than physical causes.
“No extraordinary factors have ever been identified.”
The area is also high in traffic which experts say is the reason why so many ships and planes have been lost there.